Re: what's the differnce?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 6:59 AM +0200 Christian Schäfer 
<caefer@krachstoff.net> wrote:

> Christopher Schadl wrote:
>
> > Port 636 is used for LDAP over SSL.  In order for that to work, you will
> > need to have generated an SSL certificate for the LDAP server to use,
> > and the SSL certificate will have to have the fully qualified domain
> > name of the LDAP server set as it's Common Name attribute.  If you're
> > just communicating with the LDAP server in question via localhost, then
> > you shouldn't need SSL, (you can just set the -p option to use the
> > default LDAP port of 389) however, if you're communicating over a
> > network then you should definatley read
> > http://www.openldap.org/pub/ksoper/OpenLDAP_TLS_howto.html for more
> > information on setting up SSL/TLS.
> yes, sorry.. I should have mentioned that. my ldap _is_ listening on 636
> over ssl already.
>
> netstat -tnpl  shows slapd listening on 0.0.0.0:636. all certificates are
> available. that's not the problem. :-)
>
>
> but I will check out if the order of options will change things.

It is never going to work until you at least make the changes I noted 
earlier. ;)

--Quanah

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